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... have stopped focusing on individual discipline to combat obesity, and instead are working to make entire communities more healthy by ... to live unhealthily. Laura Kettel Khan, an obesity expert at the CDC, says that “people are finally acknowledging that ... making bad choices.” The Journal describes obesity programs across Europe and in the US, noting that these initiatives are taking off ...

Boston, MA (AHN) – New research from the Harvard School of Public Health suggests obesity in the teen years may be associated with a high risk of developing multiple sclerosis as an adult. Specifically, the study says that obese teenage women may be more than twice as likely to develop MS compared to their non-obese peers. The study appears in the Nov. 10 print issue of the journal ...

The drug, liraglutide, is the first of a new class of anti-obesity agents which mimic the action of a hormone that occurs naturally in the gut, reducing hunger. Experts said it had "great potential" because it also reduced the risk factors for Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Diabetes already affects more than two million people in Britain and is rising so fast it threatens to ...

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